Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows: • A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food. • Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil. • Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc. • A tuning fork. • A fork in the road, as follows: • An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. • A decision point. • A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions. • One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. • A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths. • Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken. • (software development, content management, data management) A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. • Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created. • The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software. • Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project. • The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces. • Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created. • A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split. • The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight). • The crotch. • A forklift. • Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded. • In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork. • The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end. • A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems. • A gallows.